[p2p-research] military floss

[Michel Bauwens]

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Date: Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 7:11 PM
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   "Paul D. Fernhout" <pdfernhout at kurtz-fernhout.com> Aug 07 05:01PM
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   http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/08/07/1715259/CIA-Software-Developer-Goes-Open-Source-Instead
   """
   jamie found this piece, at Wired's Danger Room from a couple of days
   back,
   about an encouraging sign for the growth of open source in the military /

   intelligence sphere. "For three years, Matthew Burton has been trying to
   get
   a simple, useful software tool into the hands of analysts at the Central
   Intelligence Agency. For three years, haggling over the code’s
   intellectual
   property rights has kept the software from going anywhere near Langley.
   So
   now, Burton’s releasing it — free to the public, and under an open source

   license."
   """

   http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/08/cia-software-developer-goes-open-source-instead/

   Many aspects of these sorts of systems can, in theory, relate to thinking

   through social change issues or designing infrastructure for resilience.

   For example:
   "Structured Evidential Argumentation System"
   http://www.ai.sri.com/~seas/
   "The survival of an enterprise often rests upon its ability to make
   correct
   and timely decisions, despite the complexity and uncertainty of the
   environment. Because of the difficulty of employing formal methods in
   this
   context, decision makers typically resort to informal methods,
   sacrificing
   structure and rigor. We have developed a new methodology that retains the

   ease-of-use, familiarity, and (some of) the free-form nature of informal
   methods, while benefiting from the rigor, structure, and potential for
   automation characteristic of formal methods. Our approach aims to foster
   thoughtful and timely analysis through the introduction of structure, and

   collaboration through access to the corporate memory of current and past
   analytic results."

   And:
   http://www.ai.sri.com/~angler/
   "Angler is a tool that helps intelligence/policy professionals Explore,
   understand, and overcome cognitive biases, and Collaboratively expand
   their
   joint cognitive vision Through use of divergent & convergent thinking
   techniques (such as brainstorming and clustering)."

   --Paul Fernhout
   http://www.pdfernhout.net/
   ====
   The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of

   abundance in the hands of those thinking in terms of scarcity.



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